Scientists Use Technique Used on Serial Criminals to Confirm Banksy's Identity

Scientists Use Technique Used on Serial Criminals to Confirm Banksy's Identity

This picture taken on December 12, 2015 shows a street art graffiti representing Steve Jobs, founder and late CEO of Apple, by elusive British artist Banksy at the migrant camp known as the "Jungle" in Calais, northern France.

Scientists have used geographic profiling, which was developed to find serial criminals and terrorists, to confirm the identify the secretive graffiti artist Banksy.

According to Sky News, scientists at Queen Mary University of London looked at the spatial pattern of the artist’s works in both London and Bristol, U.K., to back a previously published theory identifying him as Robin Gunningham.

Geographic profiling has also been used to trace the source of disease outbreaks.

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